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Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on March 28, 2016 a post on Medium:
Says the Congressional Budget Office "is expecting a protracted economic malaise for at least the next decade under current policies."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 11, 2016
Frank Luntz
Frank Luntz
stated on April 6, 2016 a tweet:
"Team Trump has accused Ted Cruz of fraud" in Iowa, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Kansas, Maine, Utah and Wisconsin."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 11, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 10, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Says Hillary Clinton voted "for virtually every trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions of jobs."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • April 10, 2016
Jorge Ramos
Jorge Ramos
stated on March 9, 2016 an interview on NPR:
Says 80 journalists have been killed in Mexico in the last decade.
Half-True
By Eleanor Dearman • April 8, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 6, 2016 a CNN interview:
Says Bernie Sanders "wants higher standards for toy guns than real guns."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • April 8, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 5, 2016 a plan on his campaign website:
Mexico receives "approximately $24 billion a year in remittances from Mexican nationals working in the United States. The majority of that amount comes from illegal aliens."
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By Anthony Cave • April 8, 2016
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on March 28, 2016 a Medium post:
A study "from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, and Dartmouth concluded that Medicaid’s value to its beneficiaries is significantly lower than the actual cost of the program."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2016
Phil Berger
Phil Berger
stated on March 31, 2016 a Facebook post:
"Attorney General Roy Cooper refuses to do his job" by not defending House Bill 2 in a lawsuit.
Half-True
By Will Doran • April 7, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 21, 2016 a rally at a Phoenix high school:
"The economy always does better when there’s a Democrat in the White House."
Half-True
By Anthony Cave • April 6, 2016
Rick Scott's Starbucks heckler
Rick Scott's Starbucks heckler
stated on April 5, 2016 a confrontation with Rick Scott at Starbucks:
Says Rick Scott "stripped women of access to public health care."
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By Amy Sherman • April 6, 2016
Rick Scott's Starbucks heckler
Rick Scott's Starbucks heckler
stated on April 5, 2016 a confrontation with Rick Scott at Starbucks:
Says Rick Scott "cut Medicaid" so people can't "get Obamacare."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • April 6, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 23, 2016 a Medium post:
The "rate of uninsured Americans (is) 8.8 percent."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 5, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 19, 2016 a TV ad :
Says Bernie Sanders "fundamentally changed the lives" of Immokalee farm workers in Florida for the better.  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • April 5, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2016 an interview with the New York Times:
China is "in the South China Sea and (building) a military fortress the likes of which perhaps the world has not seen."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • April 4, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 27, 2016 an interview with the New York Times:
"We’ve rebuilt China."
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By Linda Qiu • April 4, 2016
Californians for Lower Drug Prices
Californians for Lower Drug Prices
stated on March 21, 2016 a press release:
"Twenty-seven out-of-state pharmaceutical companies have raised more campaign dollars (against a drug price control measure) than all other state ballot measures have raised to date, combined."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • April 4, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 3, 2016 comments on Meet the Press:
"I have now put out all of my emails."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 3, 2016
Your Choice Colorado
Your Choice Colorado
stated on March 16, 2016 a TV ad:
Expanding the sale of full-strength beer and wine to grocery stores is "good for everybody."  
Half-True
By Alan Gathright • April 1, 2016
Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory
stated on March 26, 2016 a list of rebuttals to criticism over the law:
Despite the passage of HB2, "towns, cities and counties in North Carolina are still allowed to set stricter non-discrimination policies for their own employees if they choose."
Half-True
By Will Doran • March 31, 2016
Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory
stated on March 26, 2016 a list of rebuttals to criticism over the law:
"Will (HB2) threaten federal funding for public schools under Title IX? No, according to a federal court which has looked at a similar issue."
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By Will Doran • March 29, 2016
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